Thomas Rotch letter to Thomas Morris Esqr, Kendal, Stark Co Ohio 4 mo 19th 1817

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	  		Kendal Stark Co Ohio 4mo  19th 1817
	  Thomas Morris Esqr
				The perusal of the interesting ad=
	  -dress from the American Society, for the encouragement of Do=
	  =mestick Manufactures has led me to believe that by an ap=
	  =plication to the corresponding committee of your respectable soci
	  =eity I should be successful, in Obtaining some correct informa=
	  =tion of the process of Manufacturing the common Ware import=
	  =ed from Liverpool,  the necessity, of attempting to improve from
	  the common Ordinary Ware usually made to that suitable for
	  table use, is strongly enforced from the increased expense of trans
	  =porting it across the Mountains,  Finding myself destitute of
	  the means from my own Library to assertain the modern im
	  =provements of Europe in this Art.  I have with some diffi=
	  =culty reconciled the liberty that I have taken, with a hope
	  that the importance and public utility of the object will
	  apologize therefor.   We have a white clay from which I have had
	  made divers utensils that have proved the Clay to be white after Baking
	  free from calcarious particles and may only want a small addition of
	  white flint to give it solidity equal to the Staffordshire ware.  I shall
	  annex a few questions the answering of which either by a direction to
	  such publications extant, as comprehend them, or by the information
	  of practical persons, may put me in possession of the rudiments of
	  the theory,
	  Question  1st  What is the construction of a Mill for dissolving the Clay in wa-
			 ter to prepare it for settleing, the grosser parts.
		     2d  Will an Iron Morter & Pestle answer to pound the calcined flint,
		   or, will the dislodged particles of Iron, colour the white ware,red.	 
	  	           as the Chinees use stone for pounding porcelain.
	           3d  of what materials are the Moulds made for forming ware that
	            cannot be turned upon the wheel, & what the process in making them
		    4th  What is the composition of the white glaz in now used for
	                       Queens ware in the potteries in England
		    5th  of what are the stamps made, with which the blue figures are
	            impressed upon the ware- and at what period of drying is it coloured
	           6th  Is the most common Liverpool ware baked Twice
	           7th  It is enameled before Glazing & if so with what composition
	              It is said, that to the enameling, the ware owes its luster, with
                       out which the glazing would sink in spot(illegible)on the